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Lawrence Garcia

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Shampoo (1975) 75% “Balancing screwball antics with convincingly shaded emotional clashes, the film is so involving on a dramatic level that it arguably doesn’t even require the political backdrop.” – AV Club Feb 10, 2025 Full Review Who by Fire (2024) 79% “Who by Fire leaves much more to be desired, its drama failing to go beyond the merely schematic.” – In Review Online Oct 9, 2024 Full Review Presence (2024) 88% “Presence is an invigorating experiment — both a revealing foray into camera-conscious direction and an amusingly literal play on the ghost in the machine.” – In Review Online Sep 17, 2024 Full Review Misericordia (2024) 96% “It is the finest showcase to date of Guiraudie’s uncanny ability to not just establish a coherent film-world, but continually transform the relations between the real and the imaginary that make it possible.” – In Review Online Sep 13, 2024 Full Review By the Stream (2024) 100% “What distinguishes By the Stream, though, is not the mere presence of recognizable dramatic encounters, but how difficult it is to assimilate this material into a coherent, organizing pattern.” – In Review Online Aug 19, 2024 Full Review Death Will Come (2024) “What the film lacks in interest from moment to moment, it tries to make up for in a closing structural flourish...[it] does not quite live up to that...because this final revelation does not appreciably reverberate back through the rest of the runtime. ” – In Review Online Aug 12, 2024 Full Review MMXX (2023) 86% “what MMXX demonstrates with such acuity is how its characters’ usual ways of getting a grip on the world have given way.” – In Review Online Apr 14, 2024 Full Review All of Us Strangers (2023) 96% “The trouble is that the very conception of All of Us Strangers, with its supernatural hook, is somewhat at odds with Haigh’s general approach to psychological and behavioral credibility.” – In Review Online Dec 20, 2023 Full Review The Killer (2023) 85% “While The Killer represents something of a stylistic endpoint for Fincher, however, it does demonstrate the limits of simply following things out to their logical conclusion, in that one is left wondering whether more could have been done.” – In Review Online Nov 7, 2023 Full Review Men of Deeds (2022) 100% “Negoescu seems to have challenged himself to change things up again, trying his hand at that most disreputable of auteurist ventures: directing a script that he did not write himself. And the results, it should be said, are somewhat mixed.” – In Review Online Aug 6, 2023 Full Review The Adults (2023) 72% “The main issue with The Adults, then, is not that it doesn’t have an interesting concept, but that it doesn’t do enough with it to justify its general abrasiveness.” – In Review Online Jun 17, 2023 Full Review The Zone of Interest (2023) 93% “ The film is, to be sure, formally and conceptually coherent, even airtight. But coherence is not the same thing as audacity... Glazer has made a film that, very much despite its subject, plays it safe.” – In Review Online May 31, 2023 Full Review About Dry Grasses (2023) 92% “While Ceylan may never make a film under three hours again, About Dry Grasses showcases his dramatic flair and control of pacing even better than [previous films].” – In Review Online May 31, 2023 Full Review Monster (2023) 96% “While Kore-eda’s ostensible aim is to add emotional depth to the story... Monster effectively does the opposite, turning all and sundry into mere plot mechanisms, cogs in the script’s increasingly nonsensical pile-up of complications.” – In Review Online May 31, 2023 Full Review Past Lives (2023) 95% “With Past Lives, director Celine Song has a fine story on her hands — and she knows it. Unfortunately, a solid story hook is about all Past Lives amounts to, lacking as it does any robust cinematic interest.” – In Review Online Mar 6, 2023 Full Review Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021) 97% “The final collapse of Onoda’s worldview is as wrenching as any of the violence across the film, reminding us that cinema, like any other ritual of belief, is an inescapably physical experience.” – In Review Online Nov 22, 2022 Full Review Tár (2022) 91% “The trouble is that he does not, in the end, take any genuine risks. TÁR features some psycho-horror tropes ... but Field mainly uses these to flatten and obfuscate at every turn.” – In Review Online Oct 26, 2022 Full Review Mutzenbacher (2022) 100% “ Beckermann’s conception is certainly pedagogical and didactic, but hers is a pedagogy and didacticism geared toward excavating the gap between the film’s subjects and the original text” – In Review Online Oct 6, 2022 Full Review Trenque Lauquen: Part I (2022) 96% “Trenque Lauquen’s final chapter... turns [it] into a film whose intricate, shape-shifting storytelling ultimately resists the fulsome pleasures of story, a work whose narrative indirection serves, in the end, no other purpose but negation.” – In Review Online Oct 2, 2022 Full Review Walk Up (2022) 97% “The remarkable achievement of Walk Up is that Hong manages to accommodate both... a linear, behaviorally coherent chronology and a metaphysical image of simultaneously coexisting presents.” – In Review Online Oct 1, 2022 Full Review Godland (2022) 92% “A touch of self-aggrandizement is far preferable to what Godland ultimately adds up to: a portentous journey of false mystery and thudding mechanism, a film whose aesthetic ambitions are, in the end, merely decorative.” – In Review Online Sep 19, 2022 Full Review Apples (2020) 93% “Despite the richness of his starting premise, this first-time director too often falls back on tired, obvious punchlines and lazily sentimental touches. ” – In Review Online Jun 21, 2022 Full Review Tori and Lokita (2022) 87% “Tori and Lokita ... is to some degree exciting in the context of the Dardennes’ filmography, if somewhat flat in the context of the film itself.” – In Review Online May 30, 2022 Full Review EO (2022) 96% “Skolimowski’s energies, by contrast, are directed in the extreme opposite direction [of other recent animal-centered films], asking us to identify with Eo the donkey by immersing us into a world of alien images and sensations.” – In Review Online May 27, 2022 Full Review De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022) 97% “What De Humani thus demonstrates is that the effort to go “beyond the infinite” is not a simple matter of location, not a question of “inside” or “outside,” but has to do, ultimately, with that mystery we call life.” – In Review Online May 26, 2022 Full Review
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